Australia 3Q 2014

Will the Outlander PHEV be a success story in Australia?

Waiting for Newcomers Edition

The third quarter australian sales data became available and short of knowing the numbers from the Outlander PHEV, they aren't that great, with stagnant sales from the usual two (Leaf and Volt), with the EV share down to 0,021% vs 0,026% a year ago. Let's hope the Mitsu SUV, as well as the impending arrivals of Tesla and BMW i-models, contribute to change this.

Looking at what we have now, the Nissan Leaf continues at #1 with 130 units sold, a shy 10% increase from a year ago... 

...But Holden did even worse, selling only 47 Volts this year, which is half of it had sold last year!

Australia	3Q '14	3Q'13
Nissan Leaf	130	118
Holden Volt	47	89
Mitsubishi I-Miev	0	45
TOTAL	177	237

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Source: www.bestsellingcarsblog.com

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Hong Kong September 2014

Premium Flavor Edition

This small EV market this year has been one of the few markets where plug-ins were down, with the usual major players, Renault and Nissan, selling less than expected.

But two Premium manufacturers are helping the market to turn around (September was the best sales month of the year), and at the same time break the Renault-Nissan Alliance domination, BMW sold ten i3 in Hong Kong last month, the best sales result made by anyone this year, while Tesla pulled its Model S to the YTD leadership, which is currently shared by a troika: Alongside the american Sports Sedan, we have also the BMW i3 and Nissan Leaf, all with 18 units sold.  

Further down, the Renault Twizy is #4 with 13 sales, followed by the Mitsubishi Miev family, with the I-Miev, with 4 units and finally the Minicab Miev in #6 with 3. 

Pl	Hong Kong	Sept.	YTD	%	'13Pl
1 1	BMW i3 Tesla Model S e)	10 5	18 18	24 24	N/A N/A
1	Nissan Leaf	3	18	24	3
4	Renault Twizy		13	18	7
5 6	Mitsubishi I-Miev Mitsubishi Minicab Miev		4 3	6 4	6 5
TOTAL		18	74

Source: HKMTA

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